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Flag of Yucatán

The flag of the state of Yucatán, also known as the Yucatán flag or the Yucatecan flag, is a historical object from what was intended to be the Republic of Yucatán, when in the mid nineteenth century it was proclaimed but not constituted in the territory of the Yucatecan peninsula, made up of the

Flag of Yucatán
Coat of arms

The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
1:22 wide for every 1 high. 49 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
202420 de junio de 2024 · 2 years ago
Colours
  • Green
  • White
  • Red
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.

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The colours it is made of.

  • Green

  • White

  • Red

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

Bandera de proporción 1:2 con una franja vertical verde junto al asta, con cinco estrellas blancas, y tres franjas horizontales, roja, blanca y roja, en el resto del paño.

Franja del asta
verde, de arriba abajo, ocupa una tercera parte del ancho; lleva cinco estrellas blancas: una en cada esquina y una en el centro.
Franjas
roja, blanca y roja, de la misma altura, en el lado libre.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

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Sources

Text based on the article “Bandera del Estado de Yucatán” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Flag image: Heraldry, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.

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